Beta1 Technical Refresh is Out!

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Now that Beta1 Technical Refresh (B1TR) has been released, so are many of the new pretty visuals. I thought I would post a few pictures of the new look with some comments of things of note. At first glance, you’ll notice that Outlook and the rest of Office are now more blue than gray. For more on the overall look of Office, see Jensen Harris’ blog post on A New Look for Office.

If you have installed B1TR and have used the Beta1 build, please reset your To-Do Bar .

Some highlights:

· The Date Navigator now has fewer borders

· New Item Row is now part of the task list.

· Category swatches are smaller and more rounded

· The flags are bigger and now change based on due date – the sooner the due date, the brighter the flag. (Look at the flags in the Daily Task List for comparison.)

· The X is less prominent and the minimize button is now on the right.

· You can now change the To-Do Bar settings (On/Minimized Off/Customize..) by right clicking on the To-Do Bar header or clicking on any blank space in the To-Do Bar or going to Tools->Options->Other… ->To-Do Bar options.

· The To-Do Bar is now off by default in the Calendar – but it persists per module, so you can have it on in Mail, but off everywhere else if you want, or vice versa.

· Many of the rendering problems in the Daily Task List have been fixed.

· The Daily Task List has been “prettied up” and it now has a button to minimize it.

The To-Do Bar

The Daily Task List